Tommy Sheridan: a life in pictures

Tommy Sheridan: a life in pictures

The former leader of the Scottish Socialist party has been freed from prison after serving just over one year of his three-year sentence for lying under oath during his successful defamation action against the News of the World in 2006

Thursday 23 December 2010 11.09 EST
First published on Thursday 23 December 2010 11.09 EST

1992:

Tommy Sheridan, then a councillor, is released from Soughton prison, near Edinburgh, where he served four months of a six-month sentence for his part in a poll tax demo

2001:

2003:

Rosemary Byrne, Frances Curran, Colin Fox, Tommy Sheridan, Carolyn Leckie and Rosie Kane, MSPs for the Scottish Socialist party, at the home of the temporary parliament at the Church of Scotland's General Assembly building at the Mound

2006:

Sheridan and his wife Gail outside the court of session in Edinburgh after winning his defamation case against the News of the World. The judge awarded £200,000 in damages to Sheridan after the jury deliberated for three hours over the tabloid's claims that he was a serial adulterer and swinger who used drugs

2010:

Katrine Trolle, a former Scottish Socialist party activist, told the trial that Sheridan had a string of sexual encounters with her, including having group sex at a swingers' club in Manchester. Sheridan, who was representing himself, called Trolle a "conscious liar" and accused her of making up stories

The journalist Anvar Khan at her home in Glasgow. The former News of the World columnist was accused of being a "cunning liar" by Sheridan for claiming she had gone with him to a swingers' club in Manchester

Barbara Jane Scott, a witness in the libel case, was accused of being deceitful by Gail Sheridan's lawyer, Paul McBride QC, because she failed to tell the 2006 trial that she had crucial minutes in her handbag with her as she gave evidence. She waited until after Sheridan had won his libel action before presenting the documents to the police at a stage-managed event to which the press were invited